World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. World Sight Day 2018 is on 11 October. Read more

Only more research will stop people going blind!

Two million people in the UK are currently living with a significant degree of sight loss. Yet only 2% of all medical research is directed at eye disease. Without more investment in research the number of people with significant sight loss is predicted to double to four million by 2050. Please help us combat blindness now.

Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Retinopathy are two leading causes of sight loss, both of which currently have no cure. Please support our appeal to raise £70,000 for new research to be conducted at Cardiff University to develop new treatments to combat these leading causes of sight loss. It builds on recent work to block a membrane receptor called P2X7 which reduces the speed with which disease progresses in the eye.

Poetry in Vision is a book of poems inspired through Sue's personal experiences of retinal surgery. Using humour and emotion to provide an insight into coping with poor vision, Sue Harrod tells her story. The book is available to purchase online here with all proceeds donated to National Eye Research Centre